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[scottobear]

Rough day yesterday. I knew in my gut it would be... I was tempted to take a mental health day.

Meeting this morning, but it's set to be over after an hour, so it shouldn't be too grueling, despite my concern about the content - I hope folks can keep professional and clear.

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Socialists: Give apes human rights

The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for "the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings." The PSOE's justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with chimpanzees, 97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans.

The party will announce its Great Ape Project at a press conference tomorrow. An organization with the same name is seeking a UN declaration on simian rights which would defend ape interests "the same as those of minors and the mentally handicapped of our species."

According to the Project, "Today only members of the species Homo sapiens are considered part of the community of equals. The chimpanzee, the gorilla, and the orangutan are our species's closest relatives. They possess sufficient mental faculties and emotional life to justify their inclusion in the community of equals."

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Comments

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

While I have nothing against my ape and monkey relations, thats going a bit far really.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

it's a slippery slope, but despite the crackpot side of things, I agree with the idea of showing creatures with emotions and intellect some real rights.

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

Agreed, but this way seems a bit ... yeah, crackpot. It shouldn't require legislation.

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=136954252&size=o


*oughcoughcoughcough*

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

*hrmphs*

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Oh my

niiiiice Neanderthal---niiiiice boy here have a niiiice apple

*runs*

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

I have a long way to go before I can carry a spear, let alone use a computer.

[fivefootmayhem.livejournal.com]

If they are going to do that they ought to consider the fact that all living things have a primordial connection. All living things on this planet consume energy, process waste, and have (in some way or another) a means of reproduction and/or procreation. By sharing the basic rudimentary structures of DNA we all share a common (although extremely basic) link. Wouldn't it also be fair and just to provide the same rights to all living things?

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

I can see the placards now:

Amoeba's have rights too!

Equal Rights For Single Celled Organism's!

:p

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Call me a hippie, but I do like the idea of creature rights. :0)

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Psst me too.

[fivefootmayhem.livejournal.com]

You can't deny-
The octopi-
Of equal rights-
Or cherry pie!!

Pie for the squid!!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I agree!

[acoolsecretary.livejournal.com]

Rough day yesterday. :(

Hope today gives some relief!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

morning blech, but afternoon is looking up!

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Sorry you had a rough day yesterday. If I'd known I wouldve told you my favorite joke to cheer you up.

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

Tell it now! Pretty please?

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

OK

Why dont cannibals eat clowns?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

thanks! today wasn't as bad, nd was blessedly brief.

[rejectomorph]

If I were an ape, I think I might be insulted that humans were daring to consider themselves my equals.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

If I were a gorilla, I'd think it was cute, and try to groom them.

[ilenebook.livejournal.com]

They can have equal rights when they quit throwing poo.
Heeee!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

same goes for the humans!!

[ilenebook.livejournal.com]

Planet of the Apes..yikes!
I am a speciesist I guess.
Are you a vegetarian?

[ilenebook.livejournal.com]

Ed is an ovo-lactarian vegetarian too.
I told him when all the meat is gone..I'm eating the vegetarians..cuz they're grain fed..heeee.
Ok, sorry. I am such a baaad person..heee.